Category: Paintings that Inspired the Poems

Three mischievous monkeys perch on a roof in this large surrealistic scene painted by my mother, Louise Craven Hourrigan. I love imagining their gossipy conversation.

I’ve spent years trying to read the stories behind this scene my mother painted. An older couple sits before a lavish feast. Their posture is

What’s real? What’s deception? What is the sad-eyed woman trying to say? In this playful Renaissance scene, my mother, Louise Craven Hourrigan, toyed with classical

My mother filled this enormous canvas with sins. Even the balloons have naughty details! Her painting inspired a poem that appears in Of Burgers &

In a dramatic desert landscape, navel oranges form a whimsical pyramid on an African birthing stool. This painting by my mother, Louise Craven Hourrigan, loosely